Burnett was particularly awesome to watch today, setting ten Cubs down on strikes in his 5 2/3 innings. He gave up all three Cubs' runs, though; two of them came when Anthony Rizzo destroyed a mistake fastball in the first inning and one more came when Garrett Jones attempted poorly to play right field, letting a Wellington Castillo flyball drop for an RBI double on the warning track in right center.

I was on the road when this happened- how bad was Jones on the play? Was it just a bad jump or was it LOLfense from Jones that we've come to know and love?

While getting bats into the lineup is a good thing, Jones is a horrendous fielder. Last year he had a -7.7 fielding WAR, and while fWAR isn't a great metric, it matches up with what my eyes told me. He's the inverse Hopeless Wagner.

Rocco wrote:While getting bats into the lineup is a good thing, Jones is a horrendous fielder. Last year he had a -7.7 fielding WAR, and while fWAR isn't a great metric, it matches up with what my eyes told me. He's the inverse Hopeless Wagner.

Most of that negative is from playing first.. Through his whole career he's usually been just slightly below average in the OF, it's first where he's horrendous.